Ancient and modern art, historical and critical, by G.Cleghorn.2 vols, Volume 2 |
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Page 29 - Life of Andrew Melville. Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Crown 8vo, 6s.
Page 195 - Scotsman found worthy of such honour. (Hamilton himself was the first). The picture which gained him so acceptable a prize is one of great merit, both in conception and drawing, and certainly excels any thing else, in the same style, which Allan ever painted. The subject is the old poetic dream of the " Origin of Painting; or the Corinthian Maid drawing the shadow of her Lover.
Page 20 - The best book I have ever met with." — Professor Johnston. " We have thoroughly examined these volumes ; but to give a full notice of their varied and valuabla contents would occupy a larger space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion ; we therefore, in general terms, commend them to the careful study of every young man who wishes to become a good practical farmer."— Times.
Page 148 - He is now numbered with the classics of the art, though little more than the fifth part of a century has elapsed since death relieved him from the -apathy of cognoscenti, the envy of rivals, and the neglect of a tasteless public...
Page 102 - ... Christianity, personal and social, can alone lead to excellence in art : — each of the three elements of human nature — Matter, Mind, and Spirit — being thus brought into union and cooperation in the service of God, in due relative harmony and subordination. I cannot over-estimate the importance of this principle; it was on this that, consciously or unconsciously, Niccola himself worked — it has been by following it that Donatello and Ghiberti, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michael Angelo have...
Page 186 - There was Ramsay, of whom Sir Joshua used to say that he was the most sensible among all the painters of his time ; but he has left little to show it. His manner was dry and timid. He stopped short in the middle of his work, because he knew exactly how much it wanted. Now and then we find hints and sketches which show what he might have been, if his hand had been equal to his conceptions. I have seen a picture of his of the Queen, soon after she was married — a profile, and slightly done ; but...
Page 9 - Edition. 2 vols. foolscap 8vo, 12s. " \\ '.• know of no book in the English language so calculated to rivet the attention and awaken the purest and deepest sympathies of the heart. The man who has not read these tales has yet to learn a lesson in the mysteries of human nature.
Page 15 - The Greek Grammar of Thiersch. Translated from the German, with brief Remarks. By Sir Daniel K. Sandford, MA Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow.
Page 42 - Judgment, the pope directed the painting in fresco of the walls of a chapel which had been built by San Gallo, and which was called the Pauline chapel. The subjects chosen were the Conversion of St. Paul, and the Crucifixion of St. Peter.
Page 25 - The Practical Planter: Containing Directions for the Planting of Waste Land and Management of Wood, with a new Method of Rearing the Oak.